A different perspective

If you are a millennial maybe these things are true. It doesn’t mean millennials are the worst. Every generation is different and yet the same.

We all struggle to find our way. We struggle to answer life’s most important questions. We wonder if our work and our life has meaning.

Those aren’t the struggles of millennials alone. Those are life’s struggles. What is interesting is the environment and education we have received which guides us through how to answer these questions.

A friend of mine, John Schnettgoecke, recently wrote a book about mixed-up millennials and the 12 questions we all must ask ourselves. It’s worth a read.

The book is a response to a growing trend of quarter-life crisis for millennials. The feeling of being mixed up. Having to face the contradictions in our life. It’s not a sign of weakness or proof millennials are the worst. Just an acknowledgement that what we’ve been told by parents and society and what we are seeing doesn’t seem to match up.

Every generation has this dilemma.

My question is, “What do you think?” Are millennials really the monsters the media and older generations claim them to be? Will millennials every grow out of the stigma they face? Or are millennials just expressing themselves differently in response to the struggles every generation faces….